Both projects hope to solve the issue of projects competing over liquidity across all exchanges. It says that crypto assets today are distributed over 200+ exchanges and all projects are competing for a finite amount of liquidity. They plan to solve this by developing a decentralized platform where all liquidity from the entire crypto market will be aggregated into one platform. They would aggregate the order book, depth and price price discovery from all centralized and decentralized digital asset markets.

The product is called Orion Terminal, a decentralized gateway to the entire digital asset market.

Bonded Finance plans on developing an algorithm that will help aggregate, derisk and unlock 50 million in dormant value distributed amongst untapped digital assets. They would also allow altcoin projects that are qualified to borrow against their assets, or pool them and start earning.

The collaboration allows for locked and staked ORN tokens to be made available for yield generation via the Bonded Finance Smart Contracts.  Holders of ORN will have access to Ionic, Bondeds lending / borrowing product. This access will allow them to loan and borrow ORN, Access capital resources, earn as they hold and to also earn from the liquidity incentives.

Alexey Koloskov, CEO + Co-Founder of Orion Protocol states “With a shared mission of bringing greater liquidity, accessibility, and value to open finance, we’re proud to be partnering with Bonded Finance. This will enable ORN holders to further monetize their assets by unlocking even deeper yield generation opportunities, earn liquidity incentives, and loan and borrow ORN – all while furthering ORN’s utility within Bonded’s growing ecosystem.”

Orion protocol would help Bonded Finance by providing them with their protocol’s liquidity API which would allow for streamlined Liquidation of assets available on the Bonded platform thereby allowing it to perform a wide market sweep across all exchanges in the market to efficiently handle potential liquidations. The provision of the API by Orion protocol would allow Bonded finance to transact large quantities of assets strategically without risks associated with it.

Paul Mak, CEO of Bonded Finance, states, “To have a single-source liquidity provider amidst this fragmentation is a small miracle. As we move forward, Orion’s solution will allow us to list more assets and provide smaller projects with needed support. It’s a win for the space.”

Orion Protocol

It is built on the most advanced liquidity aggregator ever developed, Orion Protocol aggregates the liquidity of every single crypto exchange into one platform: providing a decentralized gateway to the entire digital asset market. In doing so, Orion is building a protocol on which to bridge the worlds of crypto, traditional finance, and real world assets.

Bonded Finance

The Bonded platform was created to incubate and deploy experimental, high-yield, smart-contract driven, financial instruments that push the bounds of open finance. Bonding is an algorithmic model that aims to unlock, aggregate and de-risk ~50 billion in dormant value distributed amongst untapped digital assets by allowing supporters of qualifying altcoin projects the opportunity to borrow against these assets or pool them and start earning.

Just like every other societal sector, the educational sector is filled with fraudulent activities such as diploma forgeries. It is especially hard to verify each diploma certificate or educational qualifications manually since that presents a tough task to employers. The Government of Vietnam;s Ministry of Education (MOET) plans on limiting this through the adoption of the NQA System, which will provide a standardized process at the national level. This development would enable agencies to verify diplomas in a simple, accurate and economical way and without affecting the autonomous power of degree-granting institutions in the country.

TomoChain Blockchain is adopted because of its ability to handle near-instantaneous transactions at a speed of 2000 transactions per second (TPS) and it’s cheap fee of $1 for over 30,000 transactions.

The NQA System will provide MOET with a simple interface that allows them to receive, and organize digital diplomas. Diplomas stored on TomoChain blockchain are transparent and ensure data integrity due to its immutable nature. Certificates uploaded to the NQA system are tagged with a unique ID, which is provided to students upon graduation. Employers simply need to ask for this information and when provided by the graduate, the employers can simply log on to the NQA System to verify and authenticate the diploma record.

The NQA System development started in October 2020 and is expected to be completed before the end of the year, further developments would be made when necessary and additional features will be added.

Fengari meaning Moon in Greek, is said to symbolize the starting point of KardiaChains 420 days Voyage announced previously. The testnet 3.0 will allow staking and implements full BFT dPos consensus.

The Fengari release achieved over 6000 TPS (Transaction Per Second) in the local development environment. It supports an almost-instant blocktime of 1 sec with a stable 5 seconds block time under the stress test. The testnet 3.0 Fengari handles the TX pools more efficiently compared to previous testnet versions thereby ensuring faster processing. Consensus implementation has been  improved significantly and it has led to the reduction of handshake time and confirmation time between validators.

“This testnet will technically be very close to the upcoming mainnet, starting with 21 genesis validators and five boot nodes to secure the network.”

The wallets and exposure has also been improved in such aspects as instant transactions Hash search, instant Faucet token reception, instant transaction loading and searchable single address transaction fully address available transaction history, UX and UI enhancement.

The development on Fengari is a culmination of many technical, UI, and UX improvements which the KardiaChain team gathered from the feedback and bug bounty reports from the community.

The team is also launching a Bug Bounty program with 1,000,000 KAI pool rewards. Users are asked to test and interact with Smart contracts, stake and become validators on the testnet through various activities in their campaign.

About KardiaChain

KardiaChain is a public blockchain focused on Interoperability, leading the race towards blockchain adoption in Vietnam by providing hybrid blockchain solution/infrastructure for major enterprises and government bodies. The goal is to build a complete blockchain ecosystem for institutions by leveraging 3 main components: gateway, infrastructure, and services. Gateway reduces entry barriers to onboard non-crypto users onto blockchain via user-friendly payment channels. Infrastructure refers to the interlinked public and private KardiaChain blockchain network for users and businesses to operate, leveraging our unique non-invasive interoperability. Services refer to traditional organisations that collaborate with KardiaChain to tokenize and decentralize their existing services/products to become more effective and efficient. After two years of preparation, it is finally time to bring blockchain to mass adoption.

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The launch of Mainnet comes with an active ecosystem and real world use cases including Nebula Genomics, a Crypto Safe Alliance (which includes Binance and others), enterprise partners. The Mainnet network will be fully backward compatible with Ethereum thereby allowing developers to easily port new or waiting Decentralized Application (Dapp’s) to the Oasis network. The team has already started development in deploying Ethereum Dapps to the Oasis Network, this development includes Uniswap and the data governance and privacy API parcel.

The Mainnet will support Confidential Computing, a process where data is kept encrypted and private even while being processed by a node on the network. Developers who wish to use this feature must have their applications built on ParaTime, applications built on ParaTime can leverage confidential compute to protect data while also getting the benefits of immutability and traceability of a blockchain.

The newly launched mainnet makes it possible for lesser or lower fees to be paid while developing on the blockchain. It is designed in a lightweight, scalable manner and prevents front running while allowing lower fees. This development is aimed at helping the DeFi sector since one of the challenges currently faced within the DeFi space is the high cost of transaction fees paid by users and smart contract deployers and Dapps.

The Mainnet is built using the same Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) runtime that Ethereum uses but faster and more affordable for prospective users. Developers can deploy their Dapps to the network if they want since it supports the entire Solidity tool chain.

The collaboration would allow both parties to revolutionize the distribution of agricultural products. IOST plans to secure real-life use cases by securing high quality Dapp’s as the IOST ecosystem through this partnership.

Blocery aims to grow into a global project by leveraging the overseas network of IOST. The Blocery team is celebrating this partnership by holding an event that returns up to 99% of the payment amount as a reward at the agricultural products shopping mall operated by EZfarm, the parent company of Blocery.

“In the future of IOST, we will make a partnership in the practical field and prepare for the upcoming blockchain innovation. Through this, we will try to make a strong impact on the market by leveraging the technical advantages of IOST and adopting the technology into the leading countries of the blockchain.”

EzFarm, is the parent company of Blocery and is an agricultural start up with sales of 10M plus USD. The company is an Age-Tech company that combines agriculture with IT technology and provides platform services such as smart farm, farm production management, direct sales and distribution of agricultural products.

IOST has employees that are working remotely in various countries such as Japan, China, Singapore, Korea, and Spain. The foundation strives to gain practical development and adoption in each country.

The crypto exchange plans on conducting security token offerings(STO’s) “in due course” ,this is to help small and medium sized businesses to raise funds. The official report stated.

“Digital assets are poised to be the future of tomorrow’s digital economy. With DBS Digital Exchange, a bank-backed digital exchange, companies, and investors can now leverage an integrated ecosystem of solutions to tap the vast potential of private markets and digital currencies,” the DBS exchange announcement stated.

The exchange will be monitored and regulated by the monetary authority and will leverage the banks expensive experience over the years in capital markets and providing secure custodial services.

DBS digital exchange does not plan on allowing deposits and storage on the exchange platform itself, they plan on allowing  customers to store all digital assets with the DBS bank. To ensure that users funds are safe, the bank has deployed an institutional

Grade custody solution specifically tailored  to the safe keeping of digital asses.

Deploying the stock exchange Exchange method of trades

Unlike other crypto currency exchange which allows for the trading of Cryptocurrencies anytime including weekends, DBS digital Exchange will not allow trading on weekends and also has time limits to trading on weekdays which are from 9am to 4pm similar stocks  exchange .

The FAQ section of the website also indicated that the exchange platform would be available to institutional investors who would need to access  the platform through a DBS member such as DBS buckets securities (Singapore) and DBS private bank.

The BaaS platform is reportedly based on six underlying core technologies of blockchains: Multi-cloud support, multi-chain support, permission management, smart contracts, privacy protection, consensus mechanism – and customized by Hyperledger Fabric, the most widely used Consortium chain system in the world. The IOST BaaS transactions per second (TPS) has been measured to reach tens of thousands and it can still simultaneously update Millions of data and support the upload of millions of data.

The announcement made mention of the challenges most sectors faced and how the IOST BaaS platform was the perfect solution for them. Take the education sector for example, the traditional educational system has flaws, some of which are widespread falsification of academic qualifications and the difficulty in assessing the teaching quality of institutions amongst others. The IOST Aircraft Carrier plan will ensure that the academic data, student evolution files and other data related to academic history is stored and recorded on the blockchain. This development will limit or stop the rapid falsification of academic qualifications in the educational sector.

Other Platforms Of The IOST used  By Industries Giants

The announcement also covered the IOST partnership with a global leading down company EHang, which is using IOST pass to provide a safe and reliable data management system for drone companies to ensure the operating system is encrypted, verified and temper-proof against third parties.

Strategic cooperation with the gallery of the European Art Association, the top antique dealer in China. IOST Source was used to record the partial property rights certificate on the chain. Information cannot be tampered after being recorded and has a unique ID on the chain; each exhibit will be strictly screened before being recorded to ensure that the collector holds the genuine product, which will provide a strong guarantee for the healthy and orderly development of the art market.

Partnership with Fujimi City Power Plant, the third-largest power plant in Japan, to develop the IOST-based consortium chain suitable for its business. All power information can be jointly managed by the participants, and users can more smoothly and efficiently settle power transactions. The mayor of Fujimi, Japan said that the project has profound significance for residents and power companies throughout the city.

The Switzerland based company is also aiming at the international Russian wheat market, so it aims at making the trading platform a fast, easy to use type of program. The platform has had a series of test transactions since the beginning of 2018. Firms from different countries such as Japan, Ukraine, Algeria, Brazil, and Dubai were involved in the pre-launch and pilot testing before the official release of the platform to the general public. A statement from the company shows that the volume ranges as large as 20,000 metric tons of grain.

“Traders can now be 100% certain they really did the trade, versus traditional over-the-phone brokerage,” Andrei Grigorov, Cerealia’s chief executive officer, said in the statement. “Instantly, they have digitally signed contracts and blockchain-registered records ‘forever.’”

Russian is the world’s top wheat exporter.  Transactions span wheat as well as Corn, barley and other grains and vegetables oils markets, a statement from Bloomberg noted. Blockchain technology has been deployed and used in different sections of the world sectors including Agriculture.

Agricultural commodity blockchain trading platforms have been projects among start ups and heavy weights in recent times. Back in 2018, covantis SA was announced after the world’s largest agricultural commodity traders-Archer Daniels -Midland Co. Bunge Ltd, cargill, Cofco Group, Louis Dreyfus Co. and the agricultural arm of Glencore Plc-teamed up to stream trade. Prime shipping foundation piloted bulk commodities payments through blockchain, shipping wheat from Russia to Turkey.

Cerealia

Being industry experts, Cerealia targets roughly 400 bln USD/year global trade in grains, oilseeds, vegetable oils and feedstuffs with initial focus on very dynamic Emerging Markets’ part. The opportunities for improvements by new tech in this market are endless, as it largely remained in the same mode the last 100+ years. And most pain points & eagerness for solutions are situated in Emerging Markets.

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Farum is a blockchain network risk management tool which allows potential investors or organizations, fee volatility and unusual network events risks. Atlas will allow users access to raw on-chain data via a blockchain explorer API.

KPMG also plans to utilize the KPMG chain fusion, a patent-pending suite of capabilities.

“The integration of Coin Metrics’ Atlas and Farum products and KPMG Chain Fusion provides a trusted foundation for adoption of digital assets,” said Sal Ternullo, co-lead of KPMG Cryptoasset Services.

KPMG LLP is a U.S member firm of the KPMG global organization that operates in 147 countries and territories. It is one of the big four accounting firms along with PWC, Deloitte and EY. KPMG International is the third-largest accounting firm in the world. Headquartered in the Netherlands, KPMG provides accounting, consulting, tax and legal, financial advisory, and assurance services from more than 820 locations. KPMG’s member firms are located in more than 159 countries across the globe.

Through this strategic alliance, KPMG and Coin Metrics will offer a suite of complementary products and services designed to enable the increasing institutional adoption of crypto assets and public blockchains.

The official announcement states Thales plans on deploying technologies such as blockchain and big data for the improvement and digital transformation of it’s defense and aeronautics focused production and maintenance center. The blockchain technology will be used to ensure the traceability of all parts and products handled in the production and maintenance center, this development is in agreement with NATO standards and those of the ministries of defense.

They plan on using the blockchain technology as part of a new management that is connected with all applications that are currently used on it’s network. The new platform is expected to be able to connect all processes efficiently, improve communications with customers as well as maintenance of operations.

Thanks to an intuitive and cybersecured web application that will allow to optimize and improve processes, with the aim of being more efficient, the quality of products will increase and will also improve communication with the customer. The official announcement stated.

The Big Data generated in the factory’s machines will be used to optimize processes and draw conclusions to guarantee continuous business improvement: repair times, improvements in repairs, etc.

The official announcement also notes that Radio communications, aeronautical and naval equipment are among the products that will have this new management system .

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